Category: Digital Literacy

This guest post by Grow with Google Vice President Lisa Gevelber originally appeared in Google’s blog The Keyword. Since we launched Grow with Google a little over a year ago, we’ve traveled to cities and towns, partnering with local organizations from Kansas to Michigan to South Carolina to bring job skills to job seekers and online savvy to small…

It’s not too late to encourage your middle and high school patrons to create and submit an original app for the 2018 Congressional App Challenge! As guest contributor Rachel Décoste explains in a post originally published in The Scoop, the first step is to make sure your congressional district is…

This guest post was contributed by Libraries Ready to Code cohort members Julianne Wise, Rochester International Academy librarian, and Sarah Ryan, Montessori Academy librarian, both in Rochester, New York. How can libraries increase access to coding education, especially for potential patrons who were previously underserved by library programs? We, Julianne…

This 20-minute slide presentation details how the Independence (Kan.) Public Library worked with youth to gain computational thinking skills through Scratch, Python and the FarmBot app, which they used to build their own FarmBot for the library garden.

The guest post below is by Governor Mifflin (Shillington, Penn.) High School Librarian Kristin Brumbauch, a member of the Libraries Ready to Code cohort. (Check out the cohort’s newly-released beta Collection and give us your feedback!) Can a coding program get youth connected with backyard nature? Absolutely! For our Libraries Ready to Code project the…